New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-25
CLEAN SWEEP ~ EW-ENGLAND.
REDUCTIONS IN THE CUSTOMS SERVICE
SECRETARY FAIRCHIiD ORDERS WHOLESALE
CHOPPISG OFF OF HEADS IN BOsToN-THE
FFFrC1 on BrSINFSS
TgY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE.

BOsTOS. Dec. GA dispatch from Washington 10
"Tho Advertiser, Gays that Collector saonstall at
last has a chance to make the clean sweep for when
the Smelling Committee has clamorcd 80 long hecrc
tary Farchld has sent him official order for cutting
of twenty hrce heads and reducing the salaries oil
nearly many moro employees The changes are all 10
60 into effect on February l. They are made IN az
cordanco with the Collectors recommendations ana
those I'm the reports of Special Agents Iingec ana
Crowley who studied the custom house for some Time
The reduction viii be nearly $40 600 year. The en-
ployes also arc be made TO work longer Tho hours
are hereafter to be from o a m. to ! p M ihS'eau
Of from TO 3. The principal reductions ana as
charges are TO be made In the Collectors Office. tho
dlscontInuanccS include two clerks at S4oo Jour Il"
81 900 five at ~ GOO four at $500, one Norekecpcr
at G 100 and sevc? persons at 81 day. Tic fcduc-
tons are these One cigar Inspector from elSoo 10
81 200: one receiving aud delivery clerk tmn Stfoo
to al 900: another from 81 900 10 $1,000 the clerk
who records mortgages and bills Of talc from %1NoO
to 81 400: the file clerk from $1,000 To $1,000 Tho
foreman Of laborcrs Il to he made porter ara Ir-
duccd from 81 600 year TO 81 day, tundayS tx
copied Ono sorckccpcr and clerk IS cut from ei'roo
to 81 600 Ono collector has been instructed To as
continue twcntyonc laborcrs pay on tunday ana 'u'
It to 81 day The elevator men are all 10 he reduced
to laborcIs and their pay cut from $500 10 81 cav
One storage clerk IS reduced from $500 to $1,000,
and another from 81 600 20 $l4c0. Tho fcrk VINO
records entries on the import book IS cut from flSoo
to 81 600 In Deputy Collector kcnts Office three
clerks at $40 each discontinued and In the Ap-
prascr's oAcc three examiners a. *lSoo' rl'"" an
81 200 respectively, also three openers and pH'NcS AZ
ssAO an assistant examiner at $1,000 and iwo samplers
at sl.4CO. The boatmcn and night wat'hmcn are all
TO be put under the charge Of Deputy collector Tow
ency This Is the special arrangement for Boston
Tho project for reducing expenses IN tho larger
ports IS all on ono plan. The t,hcddc 81 all tcduc-
tions intended IS not quito complete as yet but The tx
emponS arc few In Maln' tho changes ~ nine ports
arc fnlly marked out At Belfast FIVE officers arc MS
continued The two established arc deputy tollec
torsbn AT GO 80 day and an insrcctorship at 90 In
CASTING tho Office will have three instead Of hvo In
spcctors. one a SO % ard two at So day ~ ELS
worth there arc three Instead 81 five nSpcctorshIs 1T
5000 500 and $500 a year each AZ HoH'"h one
place IS cut on the force being c established WIN
one deputy at So day and five al - 20 \ - day
deputy collcctorship at Machias IS abolished NJ
eaco a $500 a year deputy goes ont. ~ "aldoboro
three men go, thee being lch-two deputies al T. 'o
a day aud one at 81 G3. Al Wiscasset deputy goes
Al York there IS change. AZ the Portsmouth JUS
tom House two officials wiped ont, the office being
re established with deputy at 81, three Inspectors
AT s. 80 "a and So a day srcctlycy. Ono Loaiman
at s4OO year at Portland goo' out Inc "H''' j.
established with clek al 81 600, two Inspectors at
So two Wcghcis a, $1,000 each and enc Iahoici o.
500 All inspectors hereafter arc to have - Instead
of SO 30 and In winter tic limit ior temporary service
Is seven men a IL 80 day Instead OF ten AT - a.
heretofore
In Massachusetts in tie Earnstahe Office there ara
these reductions The deputy to g. 20 day and tho
clerk to $500 year, and two inspectors at 81 -
day At EdgartoWn two deputic, arc 10 bo cay OIL
and at Gloucester two Inspectors at MarbeheAd thc
deputies salaries are reduced from - a day to -
day At Nantucket one deputy at So II knocked or
At Newbury port there Will Hereafter DO only Two dep
utics one at 5000 and at Geo.
In Rhode Island tho two inspectors at Bristol and
Warren have been cu' OF at Newport ono deputy and
a. DAY left IN
Tho sion 81 tic Providence Office IS not angcd set
Commenting on the changes ordered IN the Losion
Custom House Mr. ". f. thcdd, at Jordan, Marsh =
Co s. said: Il am as'Onlshcd This Is peco "i I'm
wisdom which Will the business Interests 0' tho
CITY, ia some departments % tho Custom House tho
places Of clerks bo filed without much eiihcNty
but there arc other Departments winch re Juno tho
services Of lcrs and men Of long experience such
are tho I1udang clerks At tho Custom House ana tho
appraisers IN the rAarlucr's department. These me
hand WORKING men III ihc Dus5 teaa"h and they hNaJn
haNo TO WORN over hours uhlc an" ma ,h'' -
amlIcss are going ia the appra.scIs' Offices Ihoy
cant get along with less In the busy 'ch,om iL-y
figure out that thcy "liI MAKO up h ire JOSS %, on
by longer hours. but THIS Is not tho point. when
al the earliest moment possible 1h', 1, the uihc
when everS man Is needed Ih1 ~9,en' o,'r co hs
on smoothly here. but this move VIII nluro business
interests
posed reduction of the customs force would 'oncern
the d. trade Of the ~ most directly Ia me aP
ihls department II VIII affect It very ininlously There
are none too many men IL 'ho apr, a'so' pioo h
would not compehsas for inc loss Of men. W he'
and II needs tho best and most experienced men 10
examine and handle them. Any delay 'neh as w"mla
hurfn thing In our trade, both TO ourselves and our
j. j. Eaton Of Esterbrook h Eaton, cigar Importers
for tho cigai importers " H. Il Rideour, the pros
ten, man lie understands all the due, Of ibe position
and his relations with the members Of the cigar trade
the reduction II the cigar Inspectors salary from
81 800 to 81 200 should result In the resignation of
Mr.. Rdcout. It would be an injury to the cigar irado
Of the city unless equally comp'tcn. man could DO
found to ill the place.
IGNORANT THAT SHE WAS A DIVORCED WIFE
A case Of gross fraud and inhumanity, apparently
came tho surface In Judge Van Wycks Court
brooklyn, yesterday On December IT, an Italian
llquordcale Francisco cucurolo. Of No. 10 Union
St., procured an absolute divorce from his wife, no
defence being put In. Yesterday tho woman's at
torneys moved to open tho judgment and sot aside
tho default In her affidavit she says that She was
served with the papers In tho November %.
She cannot speak understand English and can
neither read nor write Italian. When her husband
homo that evening, She SAYS. she showed him
the papers. He told her that they amounted to moth
Ing and that She need pay no attention to them
She continued to live with him as his VITO until
December 10, when the decree Of tho court dissov.
ing the marriage was served upon her. and her hug
band drove her into the street first taking from hor
$50 In money which She had earned by washing and
ironing, leaving her entirely destitute. Mrs. Cucu-
rOlo depo,rs that she wholly ignorant Of the pro-
ceedngs against her and that sho Ia innocent Of the
charge upon which the divorce granted. Judge
Van Wyck opened tho judgment and set the down
for trial January g. A motion for amony and
counsel foes will DO made next week
FUNERAL or DENNIS OORBETT
The funeral Of Denns Corbc will 10 held tomorrow
at his home. Ne 439 West Forty that and tho body
will DO buried In Calvary Cemetery. Iis disease was
nniar TO that which attacked General Grant apd which
aimsst certain TO end tho life Of the Grown Prince Of
Germany Tho Eighth Ressont, National Guard. the
ssrsheld Club and tho sixty ninth Rssnsnt will he rep